Leprosy Centre Visit - 8/02/14

On the 8th of February, Leo Club of SMK Damansara Utama's Leos, Leo Advisor and Faculty Advisor paid a visit to the leprosy centre. They departed from school at 8.30a.m. and started their visit at 9a.m. The visit lasted for two hours and the Leos departed from the centre at 11a.m. It was a joyful occasion! Leos brought food to be donated to them and they handed each patient one mandarin orange. The Leos also socialized with them. Despite some having a language barrier with a few patients there, the leos still tried their very best to ensure that the patients had a memorable day. The Leos also sang chinese songs for the patients. This visit has taught the Leos to appreciate everything that they have now may it be small or big and to strive in helping those who are not as fortunate. May the patients at the leprosy centre continue living in good spirits and good health!
 

A fellow Leo playing some music for a patient :)

Leo Hui Wen with a patient :)

Preparing all the items to be donated!

Singing chinese songs for the patients.

January updates!

Its already February.. whoah how did time fly by so fast? Anyways in the first month of this year, our club has conducted  3 general meetings.

8/1/14 - we introduced ourselves and got to know each other a little more by playing some simple games and also briefing the members about the activities that will be held throughout the year.

15/1/14 - we played even more games at different stations around the school. Definitely a fun experience for all of us and it helped us get to know each other even more.

22/1/14 - the wall painting project was continued! Last year, we started this project behind the canteen wall at school. A bunch of members helped paint it to look brand new but only half of the wall was painted. We continued painting the other half at this meeting. Since the wall looks pretty plain, we may continue painting a mural on the wall hopefully soon. This project will be continued later and any details will be further announced.

Now for the upcoming projects; as said above, we may continue painting a mural on the same wall behind our canteen. We will also be visiting the Leprosy Centre on the 8th of February. This is something we did last year too! If you're interested, check out our facebook group for details. In February, another project that will be carried out is a Valentine's Day project. Also our IR Day will be held in April!

If you are interested in any of these projects (and you should be), keep your eyes peeled for our facebook group, page and twitter account too. More details & updates will be announced later on. More pictures coming soon too! :)

Happy Chinese New Year to our fellow Leos who are celebrating!

YES Camp . Day 4. Finale

Day 4

The last day. This time, we didn't start our day with  a morning exercise. We had breakfast and went to the hall right after. We had a final "drop me a note" session and they summarized the 10 keys. Then , facilitator Maggie reminisced the past 3 days with each everyone's eyes shut. 

When we opened our eyes, we found a lovely card and an envelope in front of us and were instructed to write a letter to ourselves-which will be mailed to our respective address in a month's time-about what we hope to have achieved by then since this camp. 

Our next activity was a clearing up session consisting of 3 parts. The first part was a session where each group stood in a circle together and apologized to one another if anybody made a mistake towards anyone else. 

The second part was where everyone sat in a circle in their respective groups and passed a candle around. They pass the candle to a member whom they wish to give a word of encouragement to. 

And the third part was a literal clearing up session, where we started cleaning up the hall !

And then came the closing ceremony where prize and cert presentations where given out. 

We had lunch, packed up and boarded the bus afterwards and that concludes YES Camp 2013!! 

All in all, YES Camp was a fantastic experience. Not only did we meet many people but the 10 keys we learnt brought value to the different aspects of our lives. We learnt to appreciate, to take responsibility, to be passionate, to live in the present, to be flexible, to look at the positive side of failure, to cooperate well with other, to communicate well and further more. One of the major characteristics we learnt and practiced throughout camp was TEAMWORK. Campers showed an immense amount of cooperation that you would've thought it remarkable . YES Camp has strengthen bonds between different Leo clubs from all over. Last but not least, YES Camp has brought out the Leo spirit in everyone .

May everyone continue to strive as a proud Leo ! roar roar roar!! 

YES Camp . Day 3

Day 3

As usual, we began our day with a refreshing morning exercise. Then we were given a couple of hours to prepare for out team skit presentation ! After lunch, we began our outdoor activites ! An obstacle course ! 

And then we had a tug of war competition!

After washing up and having our dinner, it was time for the team presentation! Everyone did well especially since we were given such a short period of time to come up with a skit. 

Our judges for the team skit!

After that, we had our own creation and had a "model" to represent each group to celebrate YES Camp's  10th year anniversary ! 

Later on, they commenced footloose! 

And that was the end of our 3rd day! 

YES Camp . Day 2

Day 2

We began our day with a morning exercise! It was a refreshing start to our day. 

Afterwards, they presented yet another six keys which were passion, speaking with good purpose, commitment, this is it, failure leads to success and flexibility!

Failure leads to success

Flexibility

 Passion

 Commitment

 Speaking with good purpose

This is it

And then we had another very interesting activity, we went water rafting! But that isn't just it, we had to BUILD our very own raft! 

 The raft!

 Leo Bei Er building the raft!

Water rafting!

After washing up and having our dinner, they presented two more keys which were balance and gratitude. 

 Gratitude

Balance

Later that night, we had a "know me better" where each group found a private spot of their own an had a close, intimate discussion. It taught us more about one another, helped us understand each other better and we got much closer. That concludes day 2!

YES Camp 2013 . Day 1

HEYY. So for this year's YES Camp, Leo Jazlynn Wong and Leo Bei Er from Leo club of SMK Damansara Utama went for the camp and it was such an amazing camp! It was very well conducted, there was never a moment with nothing to do. So a BIG thanks and applause to the organizers of the camp and of course the facilitators! Other than that, everyone at camp was so sporting and the food was good too! We had 6 meals a day! hahah. The activities were very good as well, a lot of team work required and that definitely trained our cooperation. Let's start with day one!

Day 1

We were assigned to our respective groups and thus began the ice breaking session! We designed our own group's shield and our own "drop me a note" envelope each.

The Shields!

Drop me a note!

Afterwards, we began our outdoor activites! team building games ! 

there were 3 games. climbing a 12 feet wall , human traffic jam and a money game.

 The instructor teaching us

12 feet wall!

Human traffic jam

At night, they presented two of the ten keys to excellence which were integrity and ownership! And then we had one of the most awaited activites, the night walk! We walked through the jungle for about 3km in two hours. It was a great experience! That concludes our first day!

Learn Fund Event

12th October 2013, some Leos from our club attended the Learn Fund event at the HGH Convention Centre, Sentul. Here are some pictures from the event :

The representatives from our Leo Club who attended the event :)

A gift we recieved as a token of appreciation.

 Just a short + sweet update ;
Final term exams are over for most of us :) Happy holidays to everyone and also Happy Deepavali to those who are celebrating! And to our form 5 seniors, good luck for SPM exams!

Merdeka!

On the 31st of August 2013, our country celebrated it's 56th annual Independence Day.  Some of our Leo's participated in an event held by SMK Cochrane together with Leo Clubs from other school. They sold some badges and handed out Malaysia flags to the public :)

Pictures :

From left ; Leo Ashley, Leo Sheryn, Leo Richelle, Leo Kimberly.

Group picture with the other Leos who participated!